Tennessee Williams on the David Frost Show, excerpts

[LostGemsFinland]

Does anyone have the full interview of this one. There is almost none of Tennessee videos online. we need to keep his memory and works alive. i love him.

[FakeMusicSnob]

he sounds like charlie sheen in this interview lol

[pinmeup123]

"I allow myself one drink a day" sounds curiously like Blanche DuBois....

[whatanightmare1]

I don't know...someone as brilliant as he, he could pull the drunken artist persona off very well. I just see an incredibly gifted man here, trying to have as good a time as possible in an uncomfortable interview. I have always felt that Williams took life's lemons and made lemonade...or some damn fine gimlets :~)

[NewMediaRep]

maybe instead of frost asking williams about his sexuality, frost should ask him about his artistic genius. that would make more sense right? considering the fact that the only talent frost had was asking questions.

[Gilligan346]

"To cover the waterfront" means that he spent time driving around the wharf looking for sailors. That was one of his favorite past times, according to Williams scholars.

[writer2victor]

This video was a classic, that is after he got out of Barnes Hospital for recovery from alchol and drug addition - caused by the loss of Frank Merlo. Thanks... his last lover, Victor.

[alexalex3131]

It wasn't the booze that killed him, nor the pills. It was the childproof cap. He tried opening the pill bottle with his teeth and wound up swallowing the cap. It stuck in his throat and he suffiocated to death. I believe the dramatist in him would have appreciated that enormously.

[thestalker2]

Covered the waterfront?  Well, his lover of fourteen years WAS in the U.S. Navy! ;)

[BirthofCharlie]

please excuse me but what did he mean when he said, "I covered the waterfront" ?

[psbfan01]

@BirthofCharlie I think it just meant he's "been around the block."

[BirthofCharlie]

@psbfan01 oh that makes sense. thanks.

[AnaKosta]

@BirthofCharlie "To cover the waterfront" means to deal with every detail concerning a specific topic, in this case homosexuality. At the same time Williams used it in a double entendre way, perhaps meaning that he had sex with a lot of sailors or that he was acquainted with every kind of homosexual practices.

[punishalltrolls]

@AnaKosta doubt it. gays were very oppressed pre-stonewall.

[HapaLife]

A good playwright, yes. A bad person, yes. Tennessee Williams celebrated and honored the Baader-Meinhoff gang, also known as the Red Army Faction. Terrorist supporters are not held in high esteem in my view, sorry.

[bawoman]

Please elaborate and with details.Thanks.

[moonflower0924]

what a genius this man was.

[rortydog]

Was Alan Partridge based on David Frost? Uncanny similarity there.

[TreasureOne]

He HAS covered the waterfront. It is amazing how well he knows women. Better than any male writer I have ever read.

[bawoman]

@TreasureOne

and better than alot of women writers,too

[TreasureOne]

:-D

[eddievas]

No one will EVER remember David Frost. EVER. Everyone will remember Tennessee.

[joeles123]

I don't like the way Frost manipulates this. Does anyone agree. Who give a fuck what your weakness's are. He is still gifted and talented.

[werobanks]

@joeles123 in the full interview David Frost cant come right out and ask his pointless question (the homosexuality question). he ducks around and Tennessee is looking at him questioning and waiting and what we see here is when Frost finally blurts whats on his mind and Tennessee looks up to the ceiling.

[teflonmagnet]

wow, he was super-gay! i thought he was going to swish onto another set when he came out...so to speak.

[RShah0]

Fascinating. David Frost looks so young. I would love to see the full interview of this.